other Medicines would do 
no good. 
Common I^Oltp-fUCklG 
or Wild-bind, in Latin Pe- 
riclymenum. It heats and 
dries much : ’Tis Splena- 
tick, and very Diuretick. 
J Tis chiefly ufedinam4/?/>- 
ma , and for a Cough. It 
dries moift and fordid Ul- 
cers. It cures Scabs, and 
other Difeafes of the Skin. 
It helps Difficulty of 
Breathing, and haftens De- 
livery, and expels Gravel. 
The diftill’d Water, and 
the Juice of it, is in ufe. 
The Leaves alfo are fre- 
quently uled in Garga- 
rifms j but fome think they 
are too hot and acrid for 
fuch an Ufe. 
tt^ 0 p£, in Latin Lupulus. 
They preferve Leer, and 
make it more wholfom , 
and better rafted • and ren- 
der it Diuretick. Beer 
purges the Blood, is good 
in the Jaundice, and for 
Hipochondriack Difeafes : 
But whether it expels Gra- 
vel, or generates it , is 
much difputed by fome ; 
They that commend it for 
the Stppc, argye from its 
being hot and Diuretick : 
They that condemn the ufe J 
of it in the Stone, fay, thac 
it makes the Fits worfe j l\ 
and that Ale, on the con- 
trary, mitigates the Pain, j 
Befides, they fay that the j 
Stone is much increas’d in | 
England flnee the ufe of ■ 
Hops. But I agree with 
thofe that approve and 
commend the ufe of it in 
Beer j for the Beer is there- 
by render’d more agreeable 
to the Stomach, and pro- 
motes the Concocftion of 
the Meat the better. Nor 
docs it avail any thing, 
that Phyficians forbid the 
ufe of Beer in the Stone, 
and preferibe Ale ; for they 
do fo only to leflen the 
Pain 3 for which Intention 
Ale is very proper, by rea- 
fon of its Smoothnefs ; but 
it docs no way conduce to- 
wards the Eradicating the 
Difeafe, or removing the 
Caufe j but rather pro- 
motes the Growth of it, 
by its being clammy, and 
apt to ftick to if: And 
it plainly appears by 
Mr. Graunth Obfervations 
on the Bills of Mortality, 
that fewer die of the Stone, 
in London, flnee Hops were 
